YouTube Comment Suite lets you aggregate YouTube comments from numerous videos, playlists, and channels for archiving, general search, and showing activity. Achieve the functionality of the Community > Comments tool that is provided to YouTube creators and more.
- Want to see how often a keyword/topic comes up?
- Have a question that may have been answered in the thousands of comments and videos?
- Want to know who the most active and popular fans are?
- Want to see a user's comment history over an entire channel or channels?
Features
- Cross-platform using Java 8 and JavaFX
- Include multiple channels, playlists, and videos in a single group.
- Search for comments by video, type, username, keyword, length, and date.
- Export search results to handier and more consumable CSV or JSON formats.
- Display stats about videos: publishes per week, most popular, most disliked, most commented, and disabled.
- Display stats about comments: posts per week, most active posters, most popular posters.
- Option to save thumbnails and profiles for archival and offline viewing.
- Sign in to multiple YouTube accounts and choose which to reply with.
- View video context when selecting a comment.
Install
Windows
Extract the latest release zip file and run youtube-comment-suite-#.#.#.jar.
- Be sure that you have Java 8 installed, if not you can get it here from Oracle.
- If you want to use Java 11 or higher, there is a workaround in the wiki here: Installation - Java 11+
Linux / Ubuntu
Instructions on how to get this running in Ubuntu 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 can be found in the wiki here:
Extracting the zip
When extracting the latest release zip, be sure to include the lib folder alongside the jar otherwise it will not run.
Simply extracting all zip contents to a folder will do this.
Getting Started
Want to know more about how to use this program? Check out the Wiki!
Building
Refer to BUILD.md for instructions on how to build and run from source.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome, refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for more detail.